The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 69
When he was made fast, the young man began to blow softly on his flute, and bound though he was, the king’s body moved to the sound, up and down the fir tree till his clothes were in tatters, and the skin nearly rubbed off his back.
Who acts: young man, tune, body, clothes, skin · What happens: make, begin, blow, bind, be, move · To what, where: tune, flute, sound, tatters, back
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, tune, body, clothes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 made | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 blow | mark |
| 12 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 12 blow | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 flute | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 flute | nmod:poss |
| 16 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blow | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bound | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bound | cc |
| 19 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 made | conj |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 was | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 was | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bound | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 moved | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 body | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 king | case |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 moved | nsubj |
| 28 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 sound | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sound | det |
| 31 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 moved | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tree | punct |
| 33 | up | up | ADV | _ | 38 tree | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tree | cc |
| 35 | down | down | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 37 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tree | compound |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sound | conj |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 44 tatters | mark |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 44 tatters | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 tatters | cop |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 tatters | case |
| 44 | tatters | tatter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 tree | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 rubbed | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 rubbed | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 skin | det |
| 48 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 rubbed | nsubj |
| 49 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 50 rubbed | advmod |
| 50 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 moved | conj |
| 51 | off | off | ADP | _ | 50 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 back | nmod:poss |
| 53 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 rubbed | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | tune | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the young man | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | blow | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | tune's flute | softly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | bind | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | be | past | tune | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | move | past | the king's body | the sound and the fir tree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | is | past | tune's clothes | tatters | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | rub off | past | the skin | tune's back | nearly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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